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Hi, I have recently started a tracked vehicle project. I have made a few other topics about it, building it etc. I was wondering if anyone has made a vehicle then turned around and made it articulated. (Especially tracked) I also need tips on how to do this. Thanks
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This is My Own Train 10205-1. Yes really. Well it did start out that way; - I purchased it off Bricklink, - a slightly played with 10205-1 with no box, but with instructions, with crooked stickers and all parts present with one or two minor substitutions. It's been hanging around a while in a large clip top plastic bag waiting for me to do something with it. It came to pass that I'd decided it was time for me to learn about PF so I decided to use the MOT 10205-1 as a guinea pig, - only I didn't fancy having a steam loco with diesel trucks. Easy peasy on went eight BBB medium wheels and four sets of Technic coupling rods, and somehow it all happened from there. It began with the tender. The standard MOT tender is a poor wee underfed thing that could barely fit one 'AA' battery. I had a 9volt battery case that took 'AA' batteries so I decided to use it, basically building the 8 wide tender around the battery case and mounting it all on two four wheel trucks. An 8 wide tender needs an 8 wide cab to follow after and so it went from there. I wanted a good sized cab to act as a junction box and a place to put the PF receiver unit and the new 8 wide cab is 2 studs longer than standard not counting the roof overhang or fall plate. The boiler is 1 stud longer than standard and overall I think the loco's proportions are reasonably good. My new No: 317 looks like a Mallet, but is really a Meyer as both power bogies are fully articulated. I chickened out with trying to fit connecting rods for the present as I would like to get the loco running properly first and if it looks to be a really useful engine I'll buy a set of Zephyr's rods for it and finish everything off properly. Still a few little jobs to do such as sorting out the tender coupling and fitting the PF receiver once it arrives. The cab roof needs some more curved slopes to match the ones in the middle as I'd run out and made do with the 2x4 ones. The red bands on the domes and cylinders came about because I didn't have enough 2x2 circular plates in black so I used the red ones. It was supposed to be just a temporary fix, but now I'm thinking the red bands can stay. I've only just now realised that I'm going to need a turntable now so I'd better hurry up and finish my two road engine shed so I can do a proper survey and peg out where it's going to be put. There will be more to come with No: 317 and as I make progress I'll post more pictures and updates here.
